An American literary cult determine, Paul Bowles tested his legacy with the unconventional The Sheltering Sky. a right away sensation, it grew to become a fixture in American letters. Bowles then back his energies to the fast tale -- the style he most popular and shortly mastered. Bowles's brief fiction is orchestral in composition and exacting in topic, marked via a different, delicately spare sort and a gloomy, wealthy, unique temper, through turns chilling, ironic, and wry.

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